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Author Aslanian, Sebouh David, author.

Title From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean : the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa / Sebouh David Aslanian
Published Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 363 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The California world history library ; 17
California world history library ; 17.
Contents From trade diasporas to circulation society -- Old Julfa, the great deportations, and the founding of New Julfa, 1604/1620 -- The new Julfan trade network I: the world of the Indian Ocean -- The New Julfan trade network II: the Mediterranean, Western European, and Russian Networks -- "The salt in a merchant's letter": the art of writing business correspondence, the courier system, and their role in Julfan economy and society -- Social capital, "trust" and the role of networks in Julfan trade: informal and semi-formal institutions at work -- The circulation of men and credit: the role of the commenda, the family firm and of non-circulating women in Julfan society -- From coalition to nation: the collapse and transformation of the Julfan trade network
Summary Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire
Analysis acapulco
amsterdam
armenia
armenian merchants
asian empires
commercial settlements
eurasian
european expansion
global trade
historical
history of commerce
imperial network
indian ocean
iran
isfahan
london
long distance trade
manila
mediterranean sea
mercantile communities
merchant life
middle east
modern history
new julfa
nonfiction
persian empire
silk merchants
trade networks
trading outposts
world history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-343) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Merchants -- Armenia -- History -- Sources
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Commerce
Merchants
Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) -- Commerce -- History -- Sources
Armenia
Iran -- Iṣfahān -- Julfa
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010023440
ISBN 9780520947573
0520947576
128327731X
9781283277310